Recent content by foureight84

I have written some instructions on how to do this without having to reply on an old unreleased Asus bios.

I would go for an Asus z10pe-d8 ws. It's a solid motherboard for later down the road if you want to add a second CPU. Check eBay

I just bought an msi x99a godlike gaming and an e5-1680v3. Now I know that the 1680v3 is fully unlocked and I can get 4.5ghz no problem. But I was wondering if I would get a performance gain by removing the haswell microcode and applying the 1F microcode. I'm using the latest bios with Spectre...

Try using a lower voltage offset like -20 or use this https://github.com/freecableguy/v3x4/releases/tag/v3x4-0.10b-i306f2-rc9 the one without voltage offset. Also in your bios overclock settings, change loadline calibration to level 9 for both CPUs and also voltage capacity to 140%. Also for the...

I actually have 5 m.2 nvme drives. All Samsung 970 evo

That's strange. Not sure what's going on there. I could try again tomorrow and give you the file. Which version do you need? Link me

V4 won't work with this all core turbo mod. As for the V3 I believe the 2696v3/2699v3 will get you the highest overclock speed of about 3.9ghz on all cores. I believe I saw that that chip has 38 multipliers so you would only need to push your bclk to 102.6mhz to get 3.9ghz. I am currently...

here you go. made one for you. removed haswell microcode: http://www.mediafire.com/file/vrvi4ruah3uovv0/mod_X99TC_1.80/file

Thank you for the tip. I did look at window's event logs and noticed DCOM errors which I followed this guide to stop it from happening. http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-3128597/windows-error-10016.html seems that I haven't experience mouse lag yet. I will keep looking though as I know you're...

You can't change multipliers on that chip. It's locked. The only thing you can do is take your bios, remove microcode from that bios for haswell chips, and use one of the efi drivers in this thread to unlock full turbo speed for all cores. you will also need to remove microcode from windows and...

System seems to be able to stand stress testing on this speed but I noticed that sometimes my mouse would jump around or get really laggy. This leads me to think there's instability but it's not immediately crashing. Any ideas what it could be that's causing input latency?

Woohoo! After a little bit of trial and error. 105.6 bclk overclocked.

@kjboughton I noticed in your signature that both you and I have the same motherboard and you're able to achieve 3.9ghz for your 2696 v3. Could you share your MB settings for bclk overclocking? Which EFI Driver are you using?

I was going to ask how would I apply the microcode on the os level but it's actually super simple after I did some google'in :) (https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/install-update-intel-microcode-firmware-linux/)

Curious, has anyone done this in Linux, especially ubuntu?